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Speaker 1: Facebook makes it easy for small businesses to sell stuff online.

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Speaker 1: Apple is reopening some stores. A startup offers satellite TV

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Speaker 1: plus Your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich

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Speaker 1: Damiro and this is rich on Tech, the podcast where

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Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should

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Speaker 1: know about, and I also answer the questions that you

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Speaker 1: send me. And this is a special edition. It is

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Speaker 1: just the questions you posted to my Facebook page at

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Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash rich on Tech. My name is

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Speaker 1: Rich Damiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Joining me is producer Megan. What's up?

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Speaker 2: Hello? How are you happy? Friday? How can I say that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Sure, I mean if you're listening on a different day,

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Speaker 1: then it may not be Friday, But you know what,

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Speaker 1: we are recording this on a Friday, so it is Friday.

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Speaker 1: We both have off Monday, which is nice, so little

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Speaker 1: ended weekend. Although with working from home, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: funny like requesting days off because I'm like, well, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like you're not in any way, but.

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Speaker 2: Right right, I mean you're still working.

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Speaker 1: You're still working. That's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Like I it's a mental break, it's.

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Speaker 1: A mental break exactly, and my mental has been breaking

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Speaker 1: many times since I've been at home, so I am

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Speaker 1: so ready. In Los Angeles, they are targeting July fourth

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Speaker 1: as our Freedom Independence Day. Do you think that's funny

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean normally a day people take off, but.

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Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, that's the day we get back to work.

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Speaker 1: July fourth, what day is no holiday? Let's see July

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Speaker 1: fourth is a Saturday this year. Oh wow, that's like

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Speaker 1: the best case scenario. Yeah, that's so interesting when holidays

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Speaker 1: fall and like, like, I think Halloween on a Saturday

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Halloween should not be during the week. I

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Speaker 1: They should always do Halloween on a Saturday night. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why who invented these holidays that are on

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Speaker 1: That I think is the best.

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Speaker 2: Well, they should just do it, Like how they do

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Speaker 2: Mother's Day and Father's Day, they should be like, it's

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Speaker 1: All right, well let's get uh, let's get started with

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Speaker 1: some of the news happening in the tech world. If

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Speaker 1: you're new to the show, thanks for tuning us in.

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Speaker 1: We talk about stuff that is the you know, the

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Speaker 1: average consumer needs to know about. This is not the

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Speaker 1: Inside Baseball Tech podcast, because we want to help the

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Speaker 1: average person. And I think this actually really helps the

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Speaker 1: average person. Facebook is introducing something called shops and it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a way for small businesses to set up

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Speaker 1: a store on Facebook instantly. And I think this is

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Speaker 1: a really big deal because Megan, I know you're on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: I'm on I have Facebook. Do you use it?

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Speaker 1: Are your friends like you're my friends? Like I you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm an older older I'm like my like guy friends

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Speaker 2: Does an Instagram already have this too?

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Speaker 2: All right. Our first question comes from Kimberly Smith Brown.

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Speaker 2: My sprint contract is up, switching to switching to Verizon

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Speaker 1: cell phone plans and you say how many lines do

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Speaker 1: Your life, never in my life. So wild, you know.

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Speaker 1: like a fifty five and up plan, which is there

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Speaker 1: fifty five or over you can get twenty seven dollars

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Speaker 2: Okay. Our next question comes from Heidi Levine. Help my

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Speaker 2: daughter will be auditioning for musical theater called Programs in

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Speaker 2: the coming months. I've gone a sure microphone and mixer

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Speaker 2: connected via USBC to my MacBook. It took me a week,

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Speaker 2: but I figured out GarageBand. Now I need help connecting

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Speaker 2: my Cannon Revel T six to my Mac so that

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Speaker 2: the microphone and music come through the video taken on

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Speaker 2: my camera. I've googled my heart out and I can't

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Speaker 2: find the answers. Help me, Rich tamiro You're my only hope.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, only hope. Well, here's what I'd say to Heidi.

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Speaker 1: Why is she making things so complicated? Yeah? She really is,

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Speaker 1: so I think that she's this is this sounds way

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Speaker 1: too complicated to me. Number one, unless these are live auditions,

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Speaker 1: which I don't think they are. It says they have

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Speaker 1: to be video submissions. So I'm thinking that she's recording

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Speaker 1: these things because she also talked about garage band, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I've been working, you know, for twenty

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Speaker 1: years in news and TV and audio, and I've never

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Speaker 1: used garage band because it's so complicated and I don't

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Speaker 1: like it. I edit this podcast in final cut because

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Speaker 1: it's so much easier, and I'm sure I'm not alone, Like,

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Speaker 1: you don't need to use garage band unless you are

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Speaker 1: of like trying to literally start a garage band, Like,

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Speaker 1: you don't need that. I think everything's way too complicated.

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Speaker 1: So you've got the microphone, you've got the mixer. So

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Speaker 1: what I would do if I was in your shoes, Heidi,

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Speaker 1: and I was helping my kid get into musical theater,

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Speaker 1: which awesome, I would just use the camera, the Rebel

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Speaker 1: T six on a tripod and yeah, and I would

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Speaker 1: just connect the microphone and mixer to the camera and

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Speaker 1: I would record everything. So you're basically recording the submission

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Speaker 1: on the camera, but the mic is coming through the

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Speaker 1: nice microphone. That would be what I would do. And

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Speaker 1: then you can take that video, import it into your

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Speaker 1: computer and just clip the you know, wherever you need

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Speaker 1: to clip the beginning and the end. You can do

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Speaker 1: that in quick time.

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Speaker 2: And I'm getting there is a place on the rebel

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Speaker 2: where she can plug in her microphone, I would assume.

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Speaker 1: So you probably you may need an adapter if it

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Speaker 1: doesn't have like a standard three point five millimeter input,

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Speaker 1: but most most cameras can do that, so I would.

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Speaker 1: But that's to me way easier and it just makes

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Speaker 1: life a lot simpler than trying to Why are you

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Speaker 1: trying to feed everything into your computer and sync it

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Speaker 1: up all at the same time when there's really no

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Speaker 1: need to. Now, if she's doing these things on Zoom,

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Speaker 1: that's a different case scenario, right, And yeah, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like she's doing on Zoom because she said they

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Speaker 1: have to be video SUBMISSI and so, and I don't

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Speaker 1: think that these schools are auditioning everyone on Zoom like

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Speaker 1: a live It seems like you would make a tape

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Speaker 1: and send it. So that's what I would do, and

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Speaker 1: I'd even I'd even take it up a notch. I

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Speaker 1: would just use my iPhone And why even bother with

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Speaker 1: doing I.

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Speaker 2: Was going to say my cousin he's in college now,

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Speaker 2: but a year ago when he was sending in his

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Speaker 2: auditions and he's like an amazing singer. He was auditioning

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Speaker 2: for musical theater college programs and his dad just filmed

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Speaker 2: him on his phone. And then I think he sent

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Speaker 2: me the files because he needed to convert them from

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Speaker 2: like an MP four.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember you using you doing that at work?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all day.

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Speaker 1: I remember that. It was just like I was like, Megan,

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Speaker 1: can you please do this? And You're like, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: converting files. I'm like, well for what, Like, don't worry

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Speaker 1: about it. But I remember it was like long, eight

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Speaker 1: hours every day.

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Speaker 2: It's really important. But yeah, but yeah, his dad just

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Speaker 2: did it on an iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think so, I think you're overthinking this.

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Speaker 1: I understand that you want your daughter to get into college,

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Speaker 1: but you have to understand that. Believe me, your daughter

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Speaker 1: is gonna shine through no matter what.

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Speaker 2: You do.

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Speaker 1: Not need the best, highest case, highest quality setup. Look

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Speaker 1: at American Idol. I mean they did the entire show

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Speaker 1: by shipping the contestants a microphone. Now, they did do

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Speaker 1: a similar thing. They shipped them a microphone that plugged

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Speaker 1: into the iPhone and they recorded. They actually, I think

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Speaker 1: they shipped them two or three iPhones so they had

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Speaker 1: different angles, and then they just sinked it.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: The editor synked it together. But you don't need to

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Speaker 1: do that. You don't have to. You just need your

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Speaker 1: daughter to this. Yeah, this is not American idol. This

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Speaker 1: is your daughter, which I have no doubt she's amazing,

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Speaker 1: but I think that her brilliance will shine through. And

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Speaker 1: that's what you need to do, is just concentrate on

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Speaker 1: making her comfortable and not making this too complicated, And

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Speaker 1: that would be my advice to you. This week, Google

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Speaker 1: and Apple came out with their exposure notification system. This

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Speaker 1: used to be called contact tracing, but the word tracing

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Speaker 1: and contact seems way too privacy woo for most people,

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Speaker 1: so they rename this because this system only works if

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Speaker 1: people actually use it and the so far only a

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Speaker 1: couple of states have used this. But let me just explinks,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting a lot of questions about this on my

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Speaker 1: Facebook page. People are so scared of this system and

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Speaker 1: there's really no reason to be scared of it. It's

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Speaker 1: not tracking your location. It's not going to tell everyone

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Speaker 1: in the world that you have coronavirus. It's not broadcasting

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Speaker 1: where you are to anyone. It's really the way they

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Speaker 1: design this program is actually very simple, and the way

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Speaker 1: they designed it is your phone is broadcasting a simple

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Speaker 1: code that changes every couple of minutes, no matter where

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Speaker 1: you are. When another phone gets close, it picks up

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Speaker 1: your code and it remembers it, and it doesn't remember

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Speaker 1: who you are, doesn't remember where you were. And when

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Speaker 1: someone in that system, let's say all those codes that

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Speaker 1: are paired up, and imagine all the codes paired up

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Speaker 1: means here's all the people that came into contact with

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Speaker 1: each other within six feet for a couple of minutes,

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Speaker 1: whatever it was. When someone in that registry says, bing,

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Speaker 1: I got coronavirus, it sends out a message to all

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Speaker 1: those phones saying, hey, it looks like you came into

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Speaker 1: contact with someone that has coronavirus. Doesn't tell you their name,

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Speaker 1: doesn't tell you where I don't know if it even

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Speaker 1: tells you when probably does, because within the last fourteen days.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Now you go get tested. If you figure out,

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Speaker 1: you know, do I need to self quarantine. It's not recording,

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Speaker 1: this data is not being kept, it's not being put

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Speaker 1: on public databases. So it's fine. And I know that

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Speaker 1: people are gonna be like, Rich, you're just drinking the

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Speaker 1: kool aid of these tech companies and you're just you know,

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Speaker 1: our privacy is at risk. It's not. The way I've

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Speaker 1: been on the phone calls with Apple and Google, and

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Speaker 1: the way they built this system is they made it

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Speaker 1: so that your privacy can't be at risk. And I

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Speaker 1: was reading an article from tech dirt dot com. They

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Speaker 1: say the case for contact tracing apps built on Apple

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Speaker 1: and Google's exposure notification system. This website is a very

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Speaker 1: smart website and they basically said, yeah, this is fine,

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Speaker 1: and they do a really good explanation with a system

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Speaker 1: involving raffle tickets instead of like the more complicated Bluetooth

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Speaker 1: beacons that they're using. And it's a great explanation. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to read it, read it. But I

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Speaker 1: imagine that people listening to this show are probably you know,

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Speaker 1: they're probably thinking it's fine anyway. But when the Apple

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Speaker 1: software came out, did you update your iPhone? Megan no.

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Speaker 1: So when the Apple software came out, it had this

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Speaker 1: contact thing in it, and people were like, what, it's

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Speaker 1: turned off by default. It is only turned on when

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Speaker 1: you download an app that takes advantage of it. Right now,

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Speaker 1: there's only three states in America that have them, which

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Speaker 1: is North Dakota and two others I can't remember and

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Speaker 1: South Dakota. Was it South Dakota, I feel like it was.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it was too but I felt like

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Speaker 1: that was too convenient, like the two Dakota's, And then

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Speaker 1: I think it was Alabama. California has not had you know,

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Speaker 1: they've not mentioned any plans for them, which you of

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Speaker 1: course know, Google and Apple want California because that's a

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Speaker 1: big get, right, that's their home stakes. And the other

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Speaker 1: place is the US. The US does not have a

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Speaker 1: nationwide use of this yet, they don't have an app.

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Speaker 1: So the other thing that came out, of course, to

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Speaker 1: go against everything I'm saying, is that North Dakota's app

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Speaker 1: has been sending data to four Square and Google. Now

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Speaker 1: this is from a privacy company called Jumbo Privacy. Their

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Speaker 1: whole business is getting you to be worried about privacy,

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Speaker 1: right because they can sell you stuff against privacy. I'm

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Speaker 1: not knocking them because I love the fact that we

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Speaker 1: have whistleblowers like this that look into the code and

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Speaker 1: see what's going on. And I would imagine that what

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Speaker 1: happened is North Dakota, whoever developed their app, was probably

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Speaker 1: using off the shelf stuff just popped in a bunch

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Speaker 1: of modules, and it included tracking for for Square and Google.

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Speaker 1: They probably didn't realize that they needed to take that

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Speaker 1: stuff out. That was my best guess, but I could

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Speaker 1: be wrong. Maybe the whole state of North Dakota is

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Speaker 1: trying to track everyone on four square and send that

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Speaker 1: to Google. I don't know, but I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I think that stuff is all safe. If

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Speaker 1: you want to look in your phone to see it,

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Speaker 1: you go into Settings General, you know, Settings Privacy, Health,

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Speaker 1: and then you'll see the COVID nineteen tracker. It should

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Speaker 1: be turned off by default because pretty much unless you

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Speaker 1: live in one of those states, there's no way to

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Speaker 1: turn it on without downloading one of these apps.

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Speaker 2: Well, will it work with Apple Watches?

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good question. I don't know, and you'll

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Speaker 1: get the notification through your Apple Watch. But I think

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Speaker 1: if you're only wearing your Apple Watch unless they made it.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe it will. You mean if you go

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Speaker 1: out for a run or something with only your Apple

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Speaker 1: Watch on. Yeah, it's a good question. I would assume

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Speaker 1: it would because that makes sense because a lot of

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Speaker 1: people do run with just their watch, so that would

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Speaker 1: be an important part of this, So I would hope

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Speaker 1: they do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Our next question comes from Chris Peak.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Rich, Well, you know it's morning, but whatever,

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Speaker 2: do you have a recommendation for a blood pressure watch?

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Speaker 2: There are just a few companies out there with this capability.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you know of one in the making.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if a lot of watches are doing this,

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Speaker 1: but I do know that I remember we talked about

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Speaker 1: this with during the Samsung event a while back, and

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Speaker 1: I believe that the back of their phones can do

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Speaker 1: blood pressure because I remember actually putting my finger on

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Speaker 1: the back of the phone and it was like a

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Speaker 1: stress test, but it was like they were using blood

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Speaker 1: pressure for that. So I know Samsung's working on it.

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Speaker 1: I dug up a press release from April twenty first,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty which now they have a blood pressure application

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Speaker 1: for their Galaxy Watch devices. So I do remember at

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Speaker 1: the Samsung event last year, they announced that they were

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Speaker 1: going to do some stuff with blood pressure. It took

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Speaker 1: a while for this to happen. But the Samsung Galaxy

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Speaker 1: Watch Too, I believe, has this feature, But according to

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Speaker 1: this press release, it looks like you have to calibrate

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Speaker 1: it with a traditional cuff, so it's kind of confusing.

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Speaker 1: The Samsung Health Monitor app will be available on the

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Speaker 1: Galaxy Watch Active Too within the third quarter and will

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Speaker 1: progressively expand upcoming watches, so it looks like you can

651
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Speaker 1: actually from It's a little complicated because it looks like

652
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Speaker 1: you need to use a cuff. No, you know what,

653
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Speaker 1: it doesn't. This is very confusing. I think it's fine.

654
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Speaker 1: I think it says once you're okay, so you calibrate

655
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Speaker 1: it with a traditional cuff. So I think what you

656
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: have to do is have you ever been into like

657
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Speaker 1: Walgreens or CBS where they have like the blood pressure

658
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Speaker 1: cuff in there?

659
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

660
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Speaker 1: You know you always wonder as a kid, like what

661
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Speaker 1: is that? Who needs that?

662
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Speaker 2: I would always do it when I was a kid.

663
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Speaker 2: I'd go and like check my blood pressure. I had

664
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Speaker 2: no idea what I was doing, but I wasn't allowed.

665
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Speaker 1: To touch it, but I always wanted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well now with COVID, I mean clearly, so I think

668
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Speaker 1: you calibrate at one time, like you go in with

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Speaker 1: your watch to one of these places, calibrate it, and

670
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Speaker 1: then you can now do it from your wrist and

671
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: it's fine, or from your fingertip or from your whatever

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Speaker 1: however they do it. But anyway, so I would look

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Speaker 1: into Samsung. I would also look into a company called Whitvings.

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Speaker 1: They are the company that makes a lot of these

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Speaker 1: connected monitors, so if you want to use it with

676
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Speaker 1: something like your phone or your iPhone. I think Whvings

677
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: is the company that does all these things. And they

678
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Speaker 1: do have a watch steal HR, but I don't know

679
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Speaker 1: if it does blood pressure. Let's see learn more heart rate, activity, sleep,

680
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Speaker 1: battery life. Yeah, it doesn't say anything about blood pressure.

681
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it doesn't say anything about blood pressure. But anyway,

682
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Speaker 1: that's those are the companies I would look at. All right,

683
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Speaker 1: I got a couple of things going here. Oh and

684
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Speaker 1: I should probably say the Apple Watch I do not

685
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Speaker 1: believe has that feature. I don't. I actually know it doesn't,

686
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: but maybe the new one does, Maybe the one that

687
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Speaker 1: they're coming out with I know has ECG and you

688
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: know those features, but it doesn't with the Apple Watch.

689
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: Is lacking is sleep monitoring, and like you said, blood pressure. Okay,

690
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: so a couple of little things just to get you

691
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Speaker 1: on the same page, I'm gonna give three little things.

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Speaker 1: So number one, Hulu is updating its interface. I do

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Speaker 1: you have Hulu. Yes, It's the worst worst interface in

694
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Speaker 1: the world. It is so complicated.

695
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 2: So it's really plain and like confusing.

696
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Speaker 1: Very confusing and bulky like there's just like I and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you use a Roku, so it's

698
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: probably a little bit easier to like navigate, but I

699
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: use an Apple TV with the swipe it kind of

700
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: like is a touchpad on the remote. And it's so

701
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: bad with Hulu because you're just swiping and you're moving

702
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Speaker 1: all over the screen. So Hulu knows it, they knew

703
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Speaker 1: it for a long time. They are finally improving it.

704
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: They're gonna do it more like what I call the

705
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Speaker 1: cross system, which is up and down, left and right,

706
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Speaker 1: and that's what Netflix uses. That's what pretty much every

707
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: streaming service uses at this point except for them, and

708
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: so Roku and tvOS. It is rolling out beginning today

709
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Speaker 1: and I don't have it just yet on my apples

710
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: or my Apple TV Hulu app, but it is coming

711
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: out any day now. So if you don't have it

712
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 1: just you're just on the list to be rolled out.

713
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Speaker 1: It's going to come soon to other devices. Google podcasts

714
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: a big app for their Google's app for iPhone. I

715
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: don't see a big use case scenario for this. We've

716
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Speaker 1: talked about this in the podcast. Why I think it

717
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 1: has potential because of the way Google searches the words

718
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: inside the podcast and can give you recommendations. But the

719
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: reality is it didn't have car play support until now.

720
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 1: Now it does, and if you open up car Play,

721
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Speaker 1: you have the Google Podcast app on iOS, you can

722
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: now play your podcast in the car. This I'm very

723
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: excited about. You can't believe how many people have emailed

724
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: me about how they can play poker with their friends

725
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: online during this whole quarantine, because a lot of people

726
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: get together and they play poker games on a Friday

727
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: night whatever Saturday night, and so I recommended one called

728
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Speaker 1: Poker in Place, and that was done by a developer.

729
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: This one looks really cool because it's actually even easier.

730
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Speaker 1: It's called Lee Poker l I poker easiest way to

731
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: play poker online. You can play games without having to

732
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Speaker 1: download or sign up for anything. You just share a

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Speaker 1: link to your friends. It works on desktop and mobile,

734
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Speaker 1: has in game video chat and messaging. Super easy, Megan,

735
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: no download, no sign up, one click link. This is

736
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Speaker 1: what I love about these new tech companies are finally

737
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: understanding the beauty of a one click link. When we

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00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: got on Google Meet for this meeting, I just sent

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00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: you a link and you clicked it and you're in.

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00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 1: It took one second. Now you were probably logged into Google,

741
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: so that helped. But I think also Zoom kind of

742
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: realized this. You make it easy for folks, they will

743
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: join on and the easier you make it with those

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00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: one links. Now Facebook does this with Facebook Messenger rooms.

745
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: Just one link, get people in there.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, did Dropbox start that?

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00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: Exactly?

748
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 2: Okay, because I think that that's like the brilliance of dropboxes.

749
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 2: You can create a share link and then easily share

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Speaker 2: videos of people that they can downloade.

751
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: Exactly. You are so right, that is the They were

752
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: like the first to kind of popularize the here's the link.

753
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: You don't need to sign up, you don't need to

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00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: sign in. You don't need to do anything, just click

755
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: this link. It will bring you to where you need

756
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 1: to do it. And this is what people are realizing.

757
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: I looked at this quickly, this Lee poker. It looks

758
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,720
Speaker 1: really cool. It's so funny because my friends played poker

759
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: last Friday night and I didn't join in because I

760
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: didn't feel like it. But it was The directions on

761
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: the email chain were absolutely insane because they were using

762
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Speaker 1: the PokerStars dot net, which is like a big company

763
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: and PokerStars dot net. What do they want you to do?

764
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 1: They want you to really play poker with real money

765
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: on their website, and yes they offer the ability for

766
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: you to do this with your friends, but they don't

767
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: really care about that. They're just trying to get you

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00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: to sign up, log in. So the question the sign

769
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: up process was so insane and just kept going and going,

770
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Speaker 1: and it was like, and I was sitting there, I

771
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: was like I didn't have the heart to tell them,

772
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: like you literally know you can do this with one

773
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: link and it's so much easier, but I don't want

774
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: to tell Max.

775
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: You should have just hit reply all than like are

776
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 2: you kidding? With all these instructions?

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be the know at all, so

778
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 1: I just sat down. Yeah, but yeah, of course, but

779
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 1: if I did this, if I set up a poker

780
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 1: night with my friends, I would do this and blow

781
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: everyone away because they'd be like, oh my god, that's

782
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: so easy. In fact, I made we have a lot

783
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Speaker 1: of plans this weekend, so I don't know, because we're

784
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: it's like Memorials popular. But so I think, like, like

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Speaker 1: Saturday night would be a good night to do this,

786
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: so I don't Yeah, maybe I'll try it out anyway.

787
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: Oh the website, by the way, I should probably give

788
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: you that because that's the thing you need to know.

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00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: Let me uh, let me see. It's l I Poker,

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Speaker 1: l I poker dot ioh l I poker dot I. Oh,

791
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:11,919
Speaker 1: it is so easy. You and I can start playing

792
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: right now. That's how easy it is.

793
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 2: Except I don't know how to play.

794
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 1: But yeah, you got to learn. You got to learn.

795
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: It's really it's fun. I mean, I don't want a stereotype,

796
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: but I mean, like Lindsay plays poker, and you know

797
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: most she hasn't played a long time, so actually no,

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00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: she doesn't really play nevermind, but she know I think

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00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: she knows.

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00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 2: How to play, But do you recommend a way to learn,

801
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 2: Like is there besides just it's other people, Like they

802
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 2: just have.

803
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: To go with other people. Just have your have a

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00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: friend that knows how to play. And I always joke

805
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 1: about this because I'm I'm good. I'm not good at poker,

806
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: but I know how to play. But and I'm also

807
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: not the guy that whenever you play poker with a

808
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: group of guys or gals or whoever, if it's mixed group, whatever,

809
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: whenever you play poker, there's always one person at the

810
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: table that I call the poker sort of king. They

811
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Speaker 1: know so not just how to play, but they know

812
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 1: how to do everything. So when you have a question

813
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: about the rules, they're the person you turn to. They're

814
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Speaker 1: the ones that are doing all the little bets and

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Speaker 1: like making sure you've got the blind and the big

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Speaker 1: blind and the small blind and taking them you know cars. No,

817
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Speaker 1: they don't do that, but they just know what's up.

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Speaker 1: They are the person, They're like the gatekeeper. Right, I'm

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Speaker 1: just sitting there like I have no idea. I'm just

820
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Speaker 1: turning over my cards, I'm folding. I'm like I have

821
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Speaker 1: no idea. They keep you going, you know, and they

822
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 1: count everyone out. It's just there's always mark my words.

823
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 1: If you play poker with friends, you know there's that person.

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Speaker 2: Okay. This next question comes from Eva Candelario. SOS, I repeat, SOS, help,

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Speaker 2: please help. We have run out of things to watch

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Speaker 2: on Netflix. I repeat, we have ran out of things

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Speaker 2: to watch on Netflix, and regular TV doesn't really offer

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Speaker 2: anything good these days. Please tell us how we can

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00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 2: unlock more options on Netflix.

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00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: Good question, Well, you can't just unlock new stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's time for a new service. There's a

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00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: lot of stuff out there. I'm I'm over subscribed at

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00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: this point, but I don't know what to say. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's but okay, So a couple things I would recommend.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like you need to like look at websites

836
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: that tell you what's what's on these services versus just

837
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: looking at what Netflix shows you on the home screen.

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00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: So a couple websites i'd recommend. First, one is my

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Speaker 1: current favorite, which is called Real Good R E E

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Speaker 1: L g oo D. I'm pretty much browsing this all

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00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: the time in my free time, trying to find like

842
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: the best stuff to watch for the kids, for myself,

843
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: for Lindsay Right now, I'm on an eighties movies kick.

844
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: So last night I was looking at all the eighties

845
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: movies that are available across my services. But what's cool

846
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: about Real Good is that they will help you find stuff,

847
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: even free stuff. There may be stuff on like two

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Speaker 1: B or what are all these other random like there's

849
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: so many random ones now Pluto, so they may They

850
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: will help you find stuff across fifty different services, and

851
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: you can add your services and you can look for

852
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: movies like so we just watched Big and then I

853
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: was trying to find similar movies too Big, and so

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00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: I went to Real Real Good and it will give

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00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: you the other movies. People also liked more female director movies,

856
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: more New York movies. I mean, how cool is that.

857
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: So you can just look through there and it's a

858
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: very well designed website. They also have an app, It's

859
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,439
Speaker 1: the best. Now there's a new one that I don't

860
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: think is as good, but you should know about it,

861
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: and it's called Universe V You. It's a V and

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00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: then Universe Vuniverse. And what worries me about this website

863
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: is that their logo is kind of inspired by the

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Speaker 1: TV guide logo and anytime you're starting a startup and

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Speaker 1: your logo is kind of lifted from a different company,

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Speaker 1: I'm worried, like you're impersonating like another company's logo. But

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Speaker 1: they do have some smart people behind this. But yesterday

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Speaker 1: when I signed in, I did the same thing. I

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Speaker 1: put big into the engine and the movie didn't even

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Speaker 1: come up. So that was kind of a little red

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Speaker 1: flag there. So that with Arnie no Tom Hanks, Oh,

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00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:16,479
Speaker 1: who's Arnie? Like Arnold Schwartz, you call him Arnie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know, but I did.

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Speaker 1: I actually have run into Arnold I think twice actually

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Speaker 1: at the beach, which is really funny. Yeah, I've seen

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00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: him a lot smaller in person than I thought. But

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Speaker 1: nice guy, very nice guy. He was very like friendly

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Speaker 1: and like just you know, very very I mean, look,

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00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: he's living the American dream. You know. He made it

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00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: big here in America and in many different ways. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: so anyway, okay, so those are the two websites that

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Speaker 1: I digress. Those are the two websites that I recommend

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Speaker 1: looking through. You can also look through the TV app

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Speaker 1: on your iPhone that'll give you some ideas of stuff

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Speaker 1: that's available. But Netflix is not included in there, so

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Speaker 1: I'd stick to these two anyway. Okay, finally, before we

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Speaker 1: go or be TV, this is a head scratcher. They

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Speaker 1: are starting a or maybe they already have it. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, it's already available, but it's a new satellite

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Speaker 1: TV company. How weird is that I could get satellite

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00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: TV installed at this point, I don't know, but they

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00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: are doing it, and their whole proposition is a value proposition.

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Speaker 1: Forty bucks a month and you get a bunch of

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Speaker 1: cable channels, but they also put an antenna on the

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Speaker 1: satellite dish that gives you your over the air channels,

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Speaker 1: which I like. I like that aspect of it. But

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Speaker 1: it's just weird to think that you would have to

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Speaker 1: have someone come to your house install a satellite dish

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Speaker 1: and now you need to use their proprietary box to

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Speaker 1: get your stuff. And I just feel like it's fine,

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Speaker 1: Like I get it, Like there's people out there, like

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00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 1: you know, less tech inclient that would want something that's

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Speaker 1: similar to cable but not as expensive or similar to satellite.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like you can get all the stuff

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Speaker 1: you need at point through a streaming service and you

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00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: don't have to have someone come to your house and

907
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Speaker 1: put this thing on your roof. Now I get it.

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Speaker 1: The whole local channels thing is kind of a problem sometimes,

909
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: but I think you'd be better served by just putting

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Speaker 1: your own antenna on the roof or in your house,

911
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: or get you're evenna pay someone, pay someone ninety nine

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00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: bucks to install it on your roof, and get something

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Speaker 1: like a Tableau or even a TVO that has the

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Speaker 1: recording built in or the locals built in.

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Speaker 2: Do you have Tableau? I have tablee.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I have two things. I have Tableau and

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Speaker 1: I also have the Amazon fireTV recast, but I dismantled

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Speaker 1: the recast in favor of Tableau because I switched to

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Speaker 1: Apple TV and that in Tableau. The reason why I

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00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: like Tableau is because it works with everything. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of platform agnostic, and so whether you have a firestick

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00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: or an Apple TV, it works just fine. And fire

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00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: is fine. The fire TV recast is fine if you

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00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 1: just have fire devices and that works really well. To DVR,

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Speaker 1: it's great. They'll both do the same thing. But to me,

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Speaker 1: like I would rather hack together my own little system

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Speaker 1: because then you have the freedom. Let's say you're not

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Speaker 1: happy with the channels that ORBTV offers for forty bucks

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Speaker 1: a month. Well, you can't just download an app and

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Speaker 1: now get YouTube TV because it's like their own weird platform.

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Speaker 1: So if you had a Fire TV stick, you could

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Speaker 1: just download YouTube TV. Oh I don't like YouTube TV. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well let's go to Hulu Live TV. I don't like that.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Fubo. Oh I don't like that. Let's

935
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Speaker 1: go to Sling. Oh I don't like that. Let's I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's so many options. When you have your own the box.

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Speaker 2: You should what's that Maybe you should just read a book.

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Speaker 2: Yeah like that.

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Speaker 1: If you don't like any of this stuff, yeah, just

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00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: do that anyway. Well, so that's what I would recommend.

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Speaker 1: And also, by the way, when you go with these

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Speaker 1: third party apps, like our third party services, like what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about here, this ORBTV, don't forget that you

944
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Speaker 1: these apps are not updated as much as say, like

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Speaker 1: if I'm creating and we've talked about this on the

946
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Speaker 1: podcast before, if I'm creating an app, I'm gonna update

947
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: my Roku app, I'm gonna update my Amazon fireTV app,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna update my Apple TV app. Then I'm

949
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Speaker 1: gonna worry about the rest of the stuff. Well, can

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Speaker 1: you believe it? That's going to do it for this

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Speaker 1: episode of the show. If you'd like to submit a

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Speaker 1: question for me to answer, just go to rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech dot tv and hit the email button at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the page. Also, we would love it if

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Speaker 1: you would rate and review this podcast to help other

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Speaker 1: com slash rich on Tech and Will Michael just left

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Speaker 1: a review five stars. Megan timely tech and tips explained

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Speaker 1: researched well wow, great tech info. He writes tips questions

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Speaker 1: answered in an understandable way. Rich clearly has high tech credentials,

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Speaker 1: but he doesn't show off his knowledge, but makes it

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Speaker 1: his goal to be the conduit of his insights to

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Speaker 1: the rest of us. Wow. He also doesn't assume the

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Speaker 1: listener has unlimited funds and seeks to identify good deals

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Speaker 1: that the average person can afford, kind of like that

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Speaker 1: TCL phone we were talking about. Show is also entertaining

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Speaker 1: in great chemistry and good humor between Rich and producer Meghan. Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Will, We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: That's so nice.

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Speaker 1: Producer Megan, where can folks find you on social media.

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Speaker 2: I am at producer Megan on Twitter and you got.

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Speaker 1: To check out producer Megan's story. Go to KTLA dot

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Speaker 1: com slash chech and look up the wine story. You

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Speaker 1: guys tasted three different wine boxes. So did anyone get

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Speaker 1: slashed that day?

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Speaker 2: Or what? You know? My parents they I mean, they drink,

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Speaker 2: but they don't they don't really get slashed. No one

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Speaker 2: got slashed. It was just kind of it was, you know,

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Speaker 2: it was a nice little drinking experience with it looked like.

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Speaker 1: You did it during the day though it was like

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Speaker 1: five okay, was right on the you're like five PM time.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because after watching the story, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: order my mom the the wine box one, the ones

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Speaker 1: that come in the files. I think that's so cool.

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Speaker 2: It's they were so cool, great for someone that Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I does your mom know a lot about wine? No?

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Speaker 1: Nothing, And like she also doesn't really drink, so it's

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Speaker 1: kind of fun to like she can just like have

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Speaker 1: like a glass like for the Zoom happy hours or whatever,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, yeah, it's just kind

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Speaker 1: of fun. It's like the wine box one is served

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Speaker 1: in like these vials that have a glass and a

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Speaker 1: half each and it's just cool. The whole presentation of

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Speaker 1: that one is really really cool.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, wine box is a great gift that you

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Speaker 2: could give someone.

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Speaker 1: Watch Megan's story. Go to KTLA dot com slash tech

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Speaker 1: and check out the wine story and that you can

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Speaker 1: see her and her fam tasting the wines. You can

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Speaker 1: find me at rich on Tech on social media. My

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Speaker 1: name is rich dedmiro On. Behalf of everyone that gets

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Speaker 1: this show to your ears. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you real soon. Bye bye,